JD Clayton put out his 2018 debut EP, Smoke Out the Fire, and was prepared to set the world on fire with what was to come next. Turns out a once in
We spoke with vocalist and guitarist Keith Murray about We Are Scientists’
new album ‘Lobes’ and more.
Glide has punched the numbers on this to uncover ten of the band’s most underperformed tracks with the hope that they will squeeze into one of their upcoming residencies.
To kick off 2023, Glide went through and ranked all 11 Roots albums that were non-collaborative (no Elvis Costello, John Legend, etc) in order to decide which of their sonic risks paid off the best. Check out our rankings below;
Before there was Seattle, there was Athens, GA. Throughout the 1980s and ‘90s you were hard pressed to find a smaller U.S. town with as many brilliant bands growing out
As illustrated by David Lemieux and his crack team of Grateful Dead archivists, there’s a big difference between ‘predictable’ and ‘consistent.’ Continuing from late 2021 into and throughout this year, their ongoing efforts to provide provocative exhumations from the vault of the iconic band span decades of performances by the various personnel lineups of the Dead
The Byrds’ lush vocal harmonies, arguably as significant to their sound as the chiming twelve-string guitar, are distinguished in large measure by Crosby’s high harmonies. Hear his voice keen through “5D,” and while doing so, note that his rhythm guitar is a driving force of the performance: the man was as formidable in that instrumental role as his peers of the era John Lennon or Steve Miller.
The Oakland, CA-based Orchestra Gold combine afrobeat with psych rock, reggae and more on their third album Medicine. Singing in the Bambara language, the band delivers unique soundscapes over the course of these eight tracks. The seven-piece fuse a sixties garage/psych rock sound onto the afrobeat formula with mixed results.
On his new LP Texas Sex, Seattle multi-instrumentalist songwriter Caspian Coberly re-contextualizes guitar-heavy rhythm and blues music for the modern listener, through a haze of intense surrealist groove and primal emotion.
Scott Tournet is back with his ravishing new single “Fever” (below), a dense arrangement that builds on itself in a bluesy rock rush.
